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It’s been something like 70 years since the George Floyd protests, and the news cycle has had no choice but to move onto so many other huge and terrible things. But Lindsey Osterman and I still haven’t forgotten the terrible arguments used by people like Sam Harris, and many in the right-wing information ecosystem, to …
Continue reading "SIO266: Why Sam Harris Is Wrong about Police Killings"
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I’m finally answering my listener email! It’s been a tense… year, and I haven’t gone to the inbox for a while. Today that changes! Before that, I can’t help but unload a bit about whether or not “the system worked.” When I hear people say that, it just does not seem right. But also… it …
Continue reading "SIO265: Did The System Work?"
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After Democrats had a disappointing election in the House, there was a group call in which some centrist members blamed progressives. AOC responded in the New York Times. This has set off a pretty bitter debate. I wanted to get to the bottom of the claims using the actual voting data and see if there …
Continue reading "SIO264: Did Progressive Causes Lead To House Losses?"
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As of recording, it’s looking like a narrow Biden victory and Republican control of the Senate. This isn’t set in stone, and there’s still an outside shot of taking the Senate and winning the Presidency by a more comfortable margin, but this analysis is under the assumption that we won’t. Here are my thoughts.
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Calmer than you are. It’s election day. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Here are a series of disjointed thoughts. God damn I hope this all ends.
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Listeners were fascinated by the Monster Island experiment Aaron told us about last episode! At the same time, another member of the group responded by posting that Aaron had perhaps left some things out of his account. I thought it would be a great opportunity to hear more about the experiment and also see how …
Continue reading "SIO261: A Monster Island Follow-up"
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My brother from another pod-mother Aaron Rabinowitz is on to discuss the fantastic article he wrote for The Skeptic! The article is about his experience in the Facebook group Monster Island, which was a no-holds-barred debate group that some of you may have been involved with. If you weren’t, Aaron will detail what happened, including …
Continue reading "SIO260: Aaron Rabinowitz on James Lindsay and Monster Island"
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I’ve been wondering how two things could be true – that Giuliani has an obviously fake story about obtaining Hunter Biden’s laptop, and that the leak contains seemingly real texts between Joe and Hunter Biden. I tried to get to the bottom of it. I also talk about the recent murder of a teacher in …
Continue reading "SIO259: Hunter’s Damned Emails"
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Lindsey Osterman is back for a follow-up to our Social Dilemma episode. Last time we talked about where the documentary got things a little wrong. Today Lindsey’s here to tell us what they had right, but didn’t go enough into. It’s not a pretty picture! As usual, she’s got the science to back the claims: …
Continue reading "SIO258: How Social Media Can Subvert Democracy"
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The second part of our conversation on cults. We finish up on the psychology and then talk about Q anon and Trumpism and whether or not they can fairly be called cults.
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If you’ve been watching The Vow on HBO (or any number of other cult related shows) you may have been wondering how cults work – why people join, and how cults hang onto their members. There is a lot of psychology behind it, so who better to help break it down than our evo psych …
Continue reading "SIO256: The Psychology Behind Cults, with Lindsey Osterman"
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We’re doubling our usual Torrez here! Andrew’s son Alex, high school debate champ, is here to help us break down the monstrosity that was that presidential debate!
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The death of the great RBG is absolutely devastating, and has made the stakes so much higher. In this episode, I talk about what we HAVE to do to keep our democracy. Things aren’t good. Toward the end, I get into the arguments over whether RBG should have retired, mainly because in EVERY interaction I’ve …
Continue reading "SIO254: We Have To Win"
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The new doc ‘The Social Dilemma’ on Netflix is making quite an impression on people. It tells a riveting story of the harms of social media, and has led to many people deleting their accounts or limiting their usage. But are all the claims backed up by science? Yes and no… If you’ve got an …
Continue reading "SIO253: Unpacking ‘The Social Dilemma’"
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It’s been a while, but today we’ve got a science episode! Making her return to the show is Lindsey Osterman, a psychologist who has been studying parasocial relationships. It’s already incredibly likely that you take part in some number of parasocial relationships, but now in the time of COVID they’re more prevalent and important than …
Continue reading "SIO252: Lindsey Osterman on Parasocial Relationships"
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I’ve got thoughts and lots of them. How do we as progressives criticize Democrats without damaging our future? Is someone who thinks the DNC is corrupt more left than I am, or more.. something else? No prison stocks didn’t go up because of Kamala Harris. Julian Assange is an absolute crap. And lots more.
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Today I’m joined by philosopher Aaron Rabinowitz of Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space to discuss the some revelations about James Lindsay’s organization “New Discourses.” If you’re a long time listener, you’ll remember James Lindsay from this show back when he didn’t totally suck. Well he now very much sucks, and to no one’s …
Continue reading "SIO250: James Lindsay’s “New Discourses” Funded By Far Right Christian Nationalist"
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Here’s part 2 of my discussion with Andrew Torrez of Opening Arguments! This time we focus on (hopefully) wild and unlikely scenarios if Trump refuses to leave office. Find out if any of them scare the expert and always optimistic P. Andrew Torrez, Esquire!
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Hey folks, this is one of those unintentional 2-parters! I originally intended to have Andrew on to discuss the scary (and hopefully unlikely?) ways that Trump might try to stay in power even if he lost, but before we even got to that discussion, we go through the ways that Trump and the Republicans are …
Continue reading "SIO248: Can Trump Steal the Election? with Andrew Torrez"
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It’s a solo show today. I have a lot of thoughts on two books I’ve read – White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. The monopoly example I used I should have credited to Kimberly Jones.
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ya this guy sucks
A series of awefully "confirmation-biased" converstions. The main speaker is simply exploring sertain subjects with a biased lense of his own beliefs making up obious excuses for whatever doesn't fit his cognitive frame. Not worth of a listen IMO.